Senior Systems Administrator to provide administration and production support within a Solaris 11 & RHEL 8/9 environment for a crown corporation client

Our valued crown corporation client is seeking a Senior Linux Systems Administrator to provide administration and production support within a Solaris 11 & RHEL 8/9 environment!

Initial 1-year contract with strong possibility of extension to a total term of 3 years. Hybrid (2 days/week) in downtown Calgary, AB. The selected candidate must work in EST hours, with days starting as early as 6am MST, and will also be part of an on-call rotation requiring work during non-standard business hours once every 7 weeks.

As the successful candidate you will provide administration and production support within a Solaris 11 and RHEL 8/9 environment.

Responsibilities:

• Support an enterprise Redhat Linux 8, 9 and Solaris 11 environment
• Perform Operating System administration, maintenance, patching and hardening practices
• Assist with the planning and execution of server installations, configuration, and tuning of Linux using Satellite and Ansible (Ansible Automation Platform)
• Assist with the development of ansible playbooks to automate every day administrative tasks. Provide support using Ansible with Satellite to automate configuration of RHEL subsystems.
• Assist with the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and documentation (build books, operational guides, etc.)
• Plan and execute patch management using best practices
• Contribute to OS patching and remediation practices and cycles
• Provide production support (including on-call rotation as required)

Must-have Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Systems Administrator supporting a RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7/8/9 environment using Red Hat Satellite
• 5+ years' experience supporting a Solaris 11 environment
• Demonstrated experience with Ansible Tower / Automation
• Experience with Unix systems administration, hardware support, and build automation (Scripting, Packaging, OpsCenter)

Nice-to-have Skills:

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Network Automation, and/or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Redhat OpenSCAP
• Experience migrating workloads to Azure public cloud and supporting them
• Knowledge of containerized environments (Docker, OpenShift, etc.)